Dear all,
You may remember that back in March I posted a rather oblique plea to our post-graduate community, asking if anyone would be interested in receiving training in fish bone analysis. Thanks to your replies, *we* (the zooarchaeological community) were able to demonstrate to the AHRC that there was a real need to improve training in this area and they are funding a collaborative training initiative - see below for details.
I would be grateful if you could alert your post-graduate students to the fish workshop. If anyone is interested in attending could you email me with their name, affiliation, dissertation/thesis topic.
Whilst the fish workshops are restricted to UK-based PhD students, you will see that we are creating an on-line training package, which will be freely accessible to all.
Cheers, Naomi
*A large number of zooarchaeologists, from institutions across the UK, are involved in this project - details of the full list of the collaborators will appear on the website (once we've created it!).
Advanced Notice of Free Training in
Archaeological Fish Analysis
Like Cod, archaeological fish specialists are an endangered species and, to halt their population decline, the AHRC is funding an initiative to develop a new training package for Britain’s PhD students plus a digital resource available to all. To achieve these aims, the country’s main players in zooarchaeological research (academic, professional and freelance) are uniting to deliver two outcomes:
1) Creation of a digital reference collection. Whilst handling collections will always be the optimal resource for fish analysis we will be creating an on-line reference collection providing high-resolution digital images for key skeletal elements, taken at different views, for c. 80 species of Mediterranean and North Atlantic freshwater and marine fishes. The resulting images will be up-loaded to an on-line searchable database, due to be launched in March 2011.
2) Training workshops and e-lectures. Starting in May 2010, four day-long workshops will be held across the country. Whilst attendance is restricted to Post-graduate students, the events will be recorded and integrated with the PowerPoint presentations to produce an e-learning resource, also to be launched in March 2011. The schedule is as follows:
Location: University of Bradford
Chair: Dr Andrew Jones, with contributions from Hannah Russ
Location: University of Cambridge
Chair: Dr James Barrett with contributions from Dr Alison Locker
Location: University of Bournemouth
Chair: Sheila Hamilton-Dyer
Location: University of York
Chair: Rebecca Nicholson
Students will receive bursaries to assist with travel and accommodation costs.
For more details or to register and interest contact [log in to unmask]
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